In late 2010 the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Library participated in a global ebook user study conducted by Elsevier Publishing. The 129 UIUC participants performed searches on ScienceDirect in their ...

This presentation details data analysis methods and findings from an investigation into new undergraduate student library engagement by way of the library mobile app after new student orientation. The quantitative study ...

Electronic reserve programs (“e-reserves”) have brought a new perspective to a very traditional library service. Reserve services hold materials for a certain population’s use and circulate them for short periods of time. ...

Electronic reserves are being offered at colleges and Universities across the country creating an opportunity for collaboration between the library units of academic libraries. Library units with course reserves in medium ...

Although much has been written about cooperative collection development and area studies collections, little research exists that assesses the effectiveness of these programs or their impact beyond their home institution. ...

A study of the life and works of the legal scholar and humanist, Andrea Alciato (1492-1550), the originator of the emblem book. The nature of the emblem is elucidated and placed in its historical, intellectual and artistic ...

From fears of anarchist terrorists in the early twentieth century
through cold war conflict and contemporary fears of extremist religious
terrorists, the American library community responded to the
use of libraries as ...

In this chapter, the authors explore possible avenues for innovation in the library’s most basic public access tool, the online catalog, drawing on features of successful analagous service models primarily from the commercial ...

The presentation will highlight results from a survey that traces institutions’ motivations for migrating from one DAMS to another. It will discuss themes and features desired in future DAMS, outlining specific topical ...

Presentation on the research and development of experimental mobile applications. Software developed includes a collections-based wayfinding application for Android phones; this resource locates the mobile device in the ...

Presented at ACRL 2015, Portland, OR, March 27, 2015.
This poster explores instruction uses of the digital humanities platform Scalar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, highlighting promising uses as ...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign closed its Library & Information Science Library and replaced it with a virtual library and an embedded librarian. A year later, a survey of the faculty and staff of the ...

In 2004, a group of Illinois librarians was awarded a research grant to assess the state of Illinois’ science serial collection. This collection assessment focused on academic libraries in the state, specifically those ...

The Illinois Digital Library Project has developed an infrastructure for federated repositories. The deployed testbed indexes articles from many scientific journals and publishers in a production stream that can be
searched ...

The Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is developing a digital preservation archive using the Fedora Commons Repository Software and the Hydra Framework. A major consideration in the development of ...

While much of today’s interest in the environment focuses on saving the world, a lot of it relates to learning about nature. Field guides—those small books or pamphlets used in the field by amateurs to aid in identifying ...